The story of my boyhood and youth
| dc.contributor.author | Muir, John, 1838-1914. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-04-29T14:17:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-04-29T14:17:29Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1913 | |
| dc.description | Illustrations: John Muir (from a photograph copyrighted by J. Edward B. Greene) -- Muir's Lake (Fountain Lake) and the Garden Meadow -- Our first Wisconsin home -- Clock with hand rising and setting with the sun, invented by the author in his boyhood -- Barometer invented by the author in his boyhood -- Combined thermometer, hygrometer, barometer, and pyrometer, invented by the author in his boyhood -- The Hickory Hill House, build in 1857 -- Thermometer invented by the author in his boyhood -- Self-setting sawmill. Model built by the author in his boyhood -- My desk, made and used at the Wisconsin State University. | en_US |
| dc.description | This book is part of the Natural History Collection, a book collection which supports the James Sowell Family Collection in Literature, Community and the Natural World. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | An autobiography which covers Muir's early childhood in Scotland, his emigration to the United States, his life on the farm in Wisconsin, and his student life at the University of Wisconsin. | en_US |
| dc.format | Text | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10605/280 | |
| dc.publisher | Houghton Mifflin | |
| dc.rights | The images in this collection are for study purposes, teaching, classroom projection and research only. To use these images in any form, an attribution of "Courtesy of the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library" must accompany the image. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Muir, John, 1838-1914--Childhood and youth. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Naturalists--United States--Biography. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Conservationists--United States--Biography. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Frontier and pioneer life--Wisconsin. | en_US |
| dc.title | The story of my boyhood and youth | en_US |
| dc.type | Book | en_US |
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